 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy : will not drive us hence. Here we may reign secure; — and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, The' associates and copartners of... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. i. 258r Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places of... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...Hi' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places x>f the poem,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, am serve in Heav'n. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : 960 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...all must do so who would greatly win. Byron's Doge of Venice, a. 2, s. 1. Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 1. His trust was with th' Eternal to be deem'd Equal in... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...Tartaro: Alto preesse Tartaro siquidem juvat, Caelis quam in ipsis servi obire munia. Milton, i. 261. and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. VIII. An interpolation in Grotius, Imioium.it,'! quaeque nominibus suis, Libet vocare... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 260 Here we may reign secure, and in ray choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' associates and copartners of our... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...Almi-lity hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : 260 Hure we may reitrn secure ; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to «-sign in hell, than serve in heaven But wherefore let we then our faithful friende. Th- associates... | |
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Here we may reign secure ; and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. 
